One more movie question

Patti J. Kurtz kurtpatt4 at NETSCAPE.NET
Wed Feb 23 15:36:27 UTC 2005


This may sound odd, but can anyone think of examples of "bad" AAVE
dialect in recent films?  I'm trying to show my dialect students how the
media sometimes gets it wrong.  (I will show any good examples, too, of
course, but I thought we'd start with the bad ones as wer begin to study
AAVE.

Thanks!

Patti
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Dr. Patti J. Kurtz

Assistant Professor, English

Director of the Writing Center

Minot State University

Minot, ND 58707



Foster: What about our evidence? They've got to take notice of that.



Straker: Evidence. What's it going to look like when Henderson claims
that we manufactured it, just to get a space clearance program?



Foster: But we are RIGHT!



Straker: Sometimes, Colonel, that's not quite enough.



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